What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[cobblers]

Seems like you've taken my internets away, because, while they normally are quite good, today Plusnet is dead here and I'm having to tether from my phone.

 

Go round and shout at the poor lass on reception or something! they are only about half a mile from you

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

They 've probably fixed it by now, but I don't dare to disconnect my phone because the USB cable is very temperamental and often refuses to engage in data transfer.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Someone mentioned online that apple are recalling the 1st generation iPod nanos, cos they set on fire or something. Dug mine out of the man drawer, sent it off to apple and 6 weeks later I get a brand new 8gb touchscreen ipod nano as replacement.

 

It's no use to me, so I boffed it on ebay for £64.50 (50P cheaper than the cheapest one on there) and it sold in 45 seconds. Nice touch, really.

 

My mum uses her Nano daily, so I applied for the exchange in November but the box never arrived. So I phoned Applecare on Tuesday ("your phone support for this product ended... two thousand days ago") and they sent another envelope but it's now down as a non-charging fault so lord only knows what I'll get back.

[wackywacerwill]

Getting my Suzuki GS450 commuter bike shite running again and finding I still have it insured till mid March

 

 

Is there many shite bikes on here? A Honda cd200 must be in the ranks somewhere?

 

Benley FTW!

 

Had one of them but it got nicked I saw it being ridden 3 up a few days later and gave chase though was pedal powered at the time so luckily escaped the prison sentence that would of surely occurred after politely* asking for my bike back.

 

Current bikeshite fleet includes the '86 GS450, '88 Honda CG125, '88 Yamaha TY250 and a Ural outfit. Lurking in the back of the garage lies a TDR250, GAS GAS EC250, and a brace of CB500's. The kids have a pair of 80's Honda QR50's (one for spares) and a Puch Magnum

 

Sure a few have been forgotten here. I need to thin out the fleet as I have no cash for the next one which is looking likely to be a Yam XT600. Really want a late model 90's/00's aircooled XT to do the lot on. A spot of touring, mainly commuting with the odd off road scurry for good measure.

[cort16]

Check out this awrsum MG6 photo shoot. It took me about 30 seconds of looking at it to realise there was actually a car in the picture.

[Cheggers]

Photoshoot?? - Looks more like a 13 year old lads school art project

[cort16]

Well when I say photoshoot it's on their facebook wall.

 

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 909&type=3

[155V6]

 

Current bikeshite fleet includes the '86 GS450, '88 Honda CG125, '88 Yamaha TY250 and a Ural outfit. Lurking in the back of the garage lies a TDR250, GAS GAS EC250, and a brace of CB500's. The kids have a pair of 80's Honda QR50's (one for spares) and a Puch Magnum

 

TDR 250's are GR973,here's my old one

[wackywacerwill]

TDR's FTW

 

Mine's a bit like that with the panels missing between the tank and headlight, really needs to see the light of day and very soon. It's a world away from the Suzuki.

[dollywobbler]

Used the 2CV to transport a door today. Usual trick of stuffing it in through the top with the roof back. Certainly impressed the lads making some road improvements in the village!

[Guest]

Check out this awrsum MG6 photo shoot. It took me about 30 seconds of looking at it to realise there was actually a car in the picture.

 

Beneath the many layers of photoshop, that's Tintern Abbey. We stopped there after picking the Herald up.

 

And I thought I was crap at HDR.

[Parky]

Took the Bini for it's MOT today and it passed with NO ADVISORIES! The guy there was a proper old school tester who does nothing but tests so has nothing to gain from finding faults. Nice little shop so can recommend any local Thurrock shiters to go to the Daneholes MOT place at Blackshots.

 

I say passed with no problems ~ one of the indicators was very dim, so he wanged in a new bulb gratis which was decent of him. Either way, legal for another year so one less thing to worry about.

 

Am I the only person who paces up and down chain smoking when my cars are being tested? I think becoming a dad for the first time was less stressful!

[MrDuke]

Scoring an Xbox360 for 99p (yes, that's right) off evilbay thanks to a dreadful advert and borked GPU. After the disappointment of finding it had already been 'repaired' once in its past, I pressed on and reflowed the GPU with a paint-burner After re-assembly, bugger me if it didn't work like a dream Do need some beefier fans though, as the last 'repair' has mangled 2 of the heatsink vanes. Still a result, though.

[Cavcraft]

Hot 31.2mpg out of the Merc today and that's without using the cruise control. Even scored dead on 30 going over Woodhead Pass, quite impressed with that!

[dollywobbler]

Colin McRae having a bit of a moment (after several minutes of foot-to-the-floor stuff) in an OMG NOT CITY X METRO

http://youtu.be/JisYzYC57U4

[scaryoldcortina]

Reverse engineering a bluetooth OBD adapter to use RS232 made me grin.

[warren t claim]

[mattblack]

We have a problem with 'people' blocking one or both our cars in on a semi-regular basis. We'd been out in my car today and hadn't been back more than ten minutes when I looked out of the window to find that some ARSE had done it again, but they had made the mistake of parking with the driver's side facing my car. So...

 

 

I greatly enjoyed watching from the upstairs window as the dick struggled to get in.

[autofive]

i would have had it towed along the street

[Negative Creep]

How can you park there without noticing it's someone's drive?

[eddyramrod]

Ah yes A5, but you know people with towtrucks! We don't all, sadly. I used to live near Royal Birkdale golf course, you can imagine what street-parking was like when the Open was on.

[Angrydicky]

Seems a bit strange really, when there's a perfectly good space over the road by the looks of it.

[eddyramrod]

Agreed, but you can never underestimate the intelligence of the general public... However stupid you think they can be, they will always take your breath away.

[Albert Ross]

Strange, nobody ever seems to be sporting enough to block my Land Rover in....

[ProgRocker]

Agreed, but you can never underestimate the intelligence of the general public... However stupid you think they can be, they will always take your breath away.

 

As someone who works with the general public - too bloody right!

 

I actually wonder if its a power thing going on there? Mr. thickasshit in his lardy Peugeot thinking he's da man and claiming some sort of moral superiority by obstructing a c.20 year old car parked in a driveway.

 

On a slightly similar note it really pisses me off when someone parks in my designated space outside my flat. The last time I left a note on the windscreen of a Hiace van that did so and worded it as if I was telling off a misbehaving 3 year old - 'This is my parking space - Do not park here again!'. Sharp and direct - hasn't happened since.

[myglaren]

Put new tyres on my C5 and daughter's Astra yesterday.

 

I call the tyre fitter 'talkative Bob', he's a very nice, helpful and skilled fitter but does enjoy a natter.

Not that I have anything against it but it is generally when I have ten minutes to get somewhere else, usually back to work.

 

He always has a story of customer idiocy and yesterday there were several.

 

The best one, somewhat edited or we'd be here all day, was that a bloke and his son had turned up half an hour before closing time and wanted ten tyres swapping over..

The story being that the car they were in was being sold that evening and they wanted the tyres off it and some others they had putting on it.

These two were rather unpleasant to say the least, with much profanity, vulgarity etc.

 

Bob looked in the car, where five wheels awaited.

 

He said to the two that he couldn't do it. Much to their displeasure.

Naturally they wanted to know why.

He explained that, in the first place it was a three hour job and he closed in half an hour. That was problem one.

Problem two was that the wheels in the boot were 13" rims, while the wheels on the car were 14".

 

They seemed to think that that wasn't a problem and it could be done in half an hour. "The rubber will stretch" was their stance.

 

Bob was unable to do other than invite them to go forth and multiply, taking their wheels with them.

[autofive]

Ah yes A5, but you know people with towtrucks! We don't all, sadly. I used to live near Royal Birkdale golf course, you can imagine what street-parking was like when the Open was on.

 

sling a rope around the steering rack and drag it

 

 

or just superglue the doorhandles

[Black_GT]

What a twat, definitely served him right. Loving the Rover

[trigger]

Another scan from a old magazine, This one from Car magazine, June 1993, features Richard Bremner buying a Simca 1204 Special for £60, DVLA says it's recently gone on SORN!.

 

GPG 162K:

Tax Status: SORN Not Due

Expiry Date: 01/02/2013

Registration Date: 01/08/1971

 

Buying a Simca 1204 Special Feature 1993 (1) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Buying a Simca 1204 Special Feature 1993 (2) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

and here the original advert from 1970.

 

Simca 1204 Special Advert 1970 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Guest]

Did some loft clearing today with an increasingly flu filled FATHA_WAT, and dug some of my old tat out of the loft.

 

 

 

Amazing to see all my childhood tat again. Most of my Motor City survived us moving house, and I'm planning on selling off a couple of the larger Britains \ Corgis I had lying around, because they're fairly valuable.

I rescued a huge pile from my idiot cousin a while back, and I'm sure more stuff will come to light. I'm still missing that Matchbox Superkings Rally Raid Peugeot 305 - that was one of my favourites.